Pat Smith
Pat Smith
West Main short on residents, critical in shaping Louisville’s urban identity
Last Fall, I was asked by real estate publication Curbed which street in Louisville was the most culturally significant. I wondered about Bardstown Road...
Biggest ReSurfaced yet brings a civic heart to barren fields in...
Walk down Shelby Street south from the vibrant main drag of Nulu and it hits you pretty quick: once you're past Nanny Goat Strut...
Chart of the Day: Watch Louisville’s urban bike network grow over...
Until now, Louisville's Urban Bike Network (UBN) meant more on paper than on pavement—but that's changing fast. "The bike lanes in town didn't make up...
While you’re at Resurfaced this October, imagine how the Tenth Street...
Louisville's party-in-a-parking-lot is returning for three days between October 15 and 17. Officially dubbed “ReSurfaced: Three Days at 10th Street,” the event corresponds with Louisville Metro...
ReSurfaced is coming back with a splash of bourbon. But what...
It's been seven months since Louisville's biggest Tactical Urbanism experiment, Resurfaced on Main, shut its doors. By all accounts, the effort to reclaim a vacant...
Interview: What the Civic Data Alliance’s Voter Turnout Map means for...
Louisville's Civic Data Alliance looks into the matrix of raw data streaming all around us and finds stories that help improve local government, citizen...